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[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 29, Volume 5, Parts 1900 to 1910.999]

[Revised as of July 1, 1998]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 29CFR1910.120]

[Page 367-409]

 

TITLE 29─LABOR

 

CHAPTER XVII─OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

 

PART 1910-OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS─Table of Contents

Subpart H─Hazardous Materials

Sec. 1910. 120 Hazardous waste operations and emergency response.

 

(a) Scope, application, and definitions─(1) Scope. This section covers the following operations, unless the employer can demonstrate that the operation does not involve employee exposure or the reasonable possibility for employee exposure to safety or health hazards:

(i) Clean-up operations required by a governmental body, whether Federal, state, local or other involving hazardous substances that are conducted at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites(including, but not limited to, the EPA's National Priority Site list (NPL), state priority site lists, sites recommended for the EPA NPL, and initial investigations of government identified sites which are conducted before the presence or absence of hazardous substances has been ascertained);

(ii) Corrective actions involving clean-up operations at sites covered by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) as amended(42 U. S. C. 6901 et seq.);

(iii) Voluntary clean-up operations at sites recognized by Federal, state, local or other governmental bodies as uncontrolled hazardous waste sites;

(iv) Operations involving hazardous wastes that are conducted at treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities regulated by 40 CFR parts 264 and 265 pursuant to RCRA; or by agencies under agreement with U.S.E.P.A. to implement RCRA regulations: and

(v) Emergency response operations for releases of ,or substantial threats of releases of, hazardous substances without regard to the location of the hazard.

(2) Application.(i) All requirements of part 1910 and part 1926 of title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations apply pursuant to their terms to hazardous waste and emergency response operations whether covered by this section or not. If there is a conflict or overlap, the provision more protective of employee safety and health shall apply without regard to 29 CFR 1910.5(c) (1).

(ii) Hazardous substance clean-up operations within the scope of paragraphs (a) (1) (i)through(a) (1) (iii) of this section must comply with all paragraphs of this section except paragraphs (p) and (q).

(iii) Operations within the scope of paragraph(a) (1) (iv) of this section must comply only with the requirements of paragraph (p) of this section.

Notes and Exceptions:(A) All provisions of paragraph (p) of this section cover any treatment, storage or disposal (TSD) operation regulated by 40 CFR parts 264 and 265 or by state law authorized under RCRA, and required to have a permit or interim status from EPA pursuant to 40 CFR 270.1 or from a state agency pursuant to RCRA.

(B) Employers who are not required to have a permit or interim status because they are conditionally exempt small quantity generators under 40 CFR 261.5 or are generators who qualify under 40 CFR 262.34 for exemptions from regulation under 40 CFR parts 264, 265 and 270

(“excepted employers”) are not covered by paragraphs (p) (1) through (p) (7) of this section. Excepted employers who are required by the EPA or state agency

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to have their employees engage in emergency response or who direct their employees to engage in emergency response are covered by paragraph (p) (8) of this section, and cannot be exempted by (p) (8) (i) of this section. Excepted employers who are not required to have employees engage in emergency response, who direct their employees to evacuate in the case of such emergencies and who meet the requirements of paragraph (p) (8) (i) of this section are exempt from the balance of paragraph (p) (8) of this section.

 

 

 

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